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Stephen Stirling Dec 26, 2022

I’m an editor at Gannett. I manage 4 reporters and lead the investigative and data work at the Asbury Park Press in NJ.

This week, I’m on mandatory furlough.

I appreciate the time with my family, but it is a truly horrid time of year to take away a portion of anyone’s salary.

I make $70K a year. I’m grateful for it. But I’m a single dad with two kids. It hurts.

The employees of this company deserve better. At the very least, they deserve to be paid what the company agreed to pay them.

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Stephen Stirling

Appreciate the attention this has received!

My only intention was to do just that: Highlight an issue that’s affecting journalists across the US this month. There are many, many more in my position. We do it for every other industry, we need to do it for ourselves.

Love the staff where I work. Looking forward to producing great journalism in 2023. There’s so much to do.

That said, we need to talk openly about these things.